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US letter-size Semiprozine, published by Pulphouse Publishing, Eugene, Oregon for the first issue, dated January 1993 (launched in September 1992) but thereafter acquired by the editor, Algis Budrys, who published it under the Unifont Company, Evanston, Illinois for the rest of its run which was, as a print magazine, until February 1997, a total of 24 issues. It then went online from April 1997 until August 1999, a further ...
When Worlds Collide
Film (1951). Paramount. Directed by Rudolph Maté. Written by Sydney Boehm, based on When Worlds Collide (September 1932-February 1933 Blue Book; 1933) and After Worlds Collide (1934) by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. Cast includes Richard Derr, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Hayden Rorke and Barbara Rush. 83 minutes. Colour. / ...
Lindsey, Johanna
(1952-2019) German-born US author of romance novels, mostly with historical settings, which regularly appeared on the New York Times bestseller list; the first was Captive Bride (1977) [not listed below]. Lindsey is of sf interest for the Ly-San-Ter trilogy opening with Warrior's Woman (1990), whose tough yet virginal female protagonist goes on an interstellar quest (with a wisecracking AI sidekick) to free her world's women from ...
Amazing Stories
"The magazine of scientifiction", with whose founding Hugo Gernsback announced the existence of sf as a distinct literary species. It was initially a letter-sized SF Magazine issued monthly by Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing Company as a companion to Science and Invention and Radio News, first issue dated April 1926, and was the first magazine to publish science fiction ...
King Dinosaur
Film (1955). Zimgor. Directed by Bert I Gordon. Written by Tom Gries, based on a story by Bert I Gordon and Al Zimbalist. Cast includes William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Patti Gallagher and Douglas Henderson. 63 minutes. Black and white. / A new planet named Nova wanders into the Solar System near Earth, so the United States rushes to build a Spaceship to visit the planet. Two male and two female ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...